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C. H. EGGLESTON.

Y BUTTON FASTENBR. No. 435,409. Patented Sept. 2. 1890.

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CHARLES H. EGGLESTON, OF MARSHALL, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE HEATON-PENINSULAR BUTTON FASTENER COM- PANY, OF RHODE ISLAND.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,409, dated September 2, 1890.

Application filed May 12, 1886. Serial No. 201,946. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-.

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. EGGLESTON, of Marshall, county of Calhoun, and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Button-Fasteners, of which the following description,in connection with the accompanymg drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to construct a button-fastener of that class having two prongs and usually termed staples.

In accordance with this invention the staple-like fastener comprises a crown to receive an eye-shank button and two parallel square- I 5 ended attaching-prongs located one at each end of said crown, said prongs being beveled inwardly upon their outside and outwardly at their edges from their conjunction with the crown to the ends of the prongs.

2o Figurel shows in front elevation a buttonfastener constructed in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2, a side view of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows a button-fastener and a button attached to a piece of material.

The staple-like fastener herein to be de scribed is preferably cut from a continuous piece of wire and bent to present a V-shaped crown and two substantially parallel legs a a Thelegs a a are beveled inwardly upon 0 the outside, as at 2 3, so that when passed through a piece of leather or other material in usual manner the said legs are caused to bend toward each other, accomplishing the same result obtained if the legs were curved slightly toward each other. The legs a a are broadened or flattened, as at 4, Fig. 2, gradually increasing in width toward the point, thus forming an outward bevel at each side or edge from theconjunction with the crown to the end of the prongs, thus giving a broader holding-surface upon the under side of the material, and thereby lessen the liability of the staple being pulled out by any strain upon the button. The legs a a are again beveled at their extreme points to give a sharp or chisel point, as at 5 6, to better penetrate the material. The staple-like fastener thus formed is passed through the eye 6 of the button e and then driven through the material d, the legs a a bending inward toward each other and clinching upon asuitable anvil, the points of the staples when turned over by the anvil being also curved slightly upward, preventing catching and tearing of the stocking. It will be seen that the legs of the staples thus formed do not meet when clinched, thus leaving suflicient material to give to the staple a firm hold, and by widening or flattening the points, as described, the metal is stiffened or hardened to thereby prevent the same from straightening or pulling outward.

It is obvious that a staple may have any other suitably-shaped crown than that herein described.

I claim- The button-fastenerstapleherein described, comprising a crown to receive an eye-shank button, and two parallel square-ended attaching-prongs located one at each end of said crown, saidprongs being beveled inwardly upon their outside and outwardly at their edges from their conjunction with the crown to the end of the prongs, substantially as set forth. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. EGGLESTON.

Witnesses:

DAVID CUNNINGHAM, M. M. WADswoRTH. 

